We had a lot of finishing touches to do on Woolbaakee. We had a list and we all had a jobs to complete. Once again the wonderful group of year 10 students gave up their entire day so our Archibull entry was painted to her very best.
As we were working in the corridor Jimmy Barnes blared from an iPhone and we all chatted about life in general. Lots of teachers and students walked past and commented on our Archi….THEY LOVED IT! I wish there was enough room around the cow for 100 students to work…we had a lot more volunteers!
At the conclusion of the day, we were all so tired, but mustered up the energy to trek Woolbaakee down to the hall for one last photo shoot.
Disaster struck when the giant wooden knitting needles and large tapestries become unbalanced and snapped!!!!!
We couldn’t let that stop us. We needed to get photographs for our artwork analysis, so Paige ran back up to the classroom and got a ball of strong black wool. We attached the wool around both ends of the needles and Brandon (who is very tall for someone in year 8), threw the ball of wool up and caught it on a large hook that was on the brick wall behind our cow. Two students held either side of the wool, to keep the needles upright.
If you look close at the photos you will see the black wool in the background.
Once all the photos had been taken, from almost every angle possible we needed to consider how to fix this major problem.
Mrs Dowe took the knitting needles, poles and tapestries home for her husband to fix.
The new and improved version is much stronger than the original, now Mrs Dowe just has to attach it to the back of Woolbaakee tomorrow….nothing like leaving it to the last minute!!!!
We had a very full and productive last day of working all together…and what a fitting ending to have quite a major problem to solve!!
After all…..WE ARE THE PROBLEM SOLVERS….WE HUNT FOR SOLUTIONS!
Northlakes High School Archibull 2015 